MGMT 2100 - Effective Organizational Behavior & Team Development

Credit Hours: 3.00

Objectives:

1. Differentiate between the different personality styles.
2. Explain differences in the effects between emotions and moods.
3. Identify motivational practices in overall job satisfaction.
4. Complete personal assessments to identify the student’s own role.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to critique team effectiveness in an organization.

Objectives:

1. Categorize the stages of group development.
2. Identify the stages of team development
3. Identify the factors of team effectiveness that make a team successful
4. Discover different conflict styles within groups
5. Complete personal assessments to identify the student’s preferred role in a team.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to evaluate an organization’s behavior.

Objectives:

1. Research an organization’s history and current trends
2. Interpret articles and media publications
3. Explain main points of organizational behavior
4. Determine why an organization faces behavior issues.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to illustrate how to work in a team setting collaboratively.

Objectives:

1. Prepare an independent written analysis of organizational behavior.
2. Combine findings with class team and compile one full analysis.
3. Prepare oral presentation for class audience.
4. Present findings and proposal to the class audience collaboratively.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to assess the performance of an effective team.

Objectives:

1. Prepare group evaluations of performance
2. Prepare self-evaluation of effort and performance
3. Document behaviors and detect problems and successes

• Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
• Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
• Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
• Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
• Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
• Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.

1. What is Organizational Behavior?
   1. Management functions and roles
   2. Management Skills
   3. Challenges and opportunities for Organization Behavior
   4. Using Self-Assessments
2. The Individual
   1. Diversity in Organizations
   2. Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
   3. Emotions and Moods
   4. Personality and Values
   5. Perception and Individual Decision Making
   6. Motivation: from Concepts to Application
3. The Group
   1. Foundations of Group Behavior
      1. Stages of Group Development
      2. Group Properties: Roles, Norms, Status, Size, Cohesiveness, and Diversity
   2. Understanding Work Teams
      1. Differences between groups and teams
      2. Types of Teams
      3. Team Effectiveness Model: Factors that make teams successful
   3. Communication
   4. Leadership
   5. Power and Politics
   6. Conflict and Negotiation
4. The Organization System
   1. Foundations of Organization Structure
   2. Organizational Culture
   3. Organizational Change
5. Presentation of Team Project
   1. Assist in the compilation and delivery of the team written project
   2. Assist in the compilation and verbal presentation of the team written project
   3. Assess performance and evaluate all members of the team